Favorite thing to eat from your garden

[Tink3815]

What is your favorirte thing to make from your home garden or orchard? Mine is sliced cucumbers with a mayo/sugar/ cider vinegar dressing. I found the receipe on DIS years ago.

 

[JaxDad]

Caipirinhas from my key lime tree.

 

[eticketplease]

Tomato are here but my jalapeños are taking forever so I can make some salsa.

 

[Her Dotness]

I no longer live where I can have a vegetable garden, but when I did, I liked going out there before the sun got really hot.

I'd pluck a few leaves of lettuce, wash them a bit with the hose, and eat them as is. So tender and flavorful. Yum!

 

[mommasita]

Tomatoes for sure. We had our first one this past week, and nothing like it.

 

[ronandannette]

No garden now, except in my memory and imagination, but my favorite new vegetables are definitely baby potatoes and green peas.

 

[amcnj]

Another vote for the tomatoes

 

[tasha99]

This year it's my shishito peppers. They're very mild and are really good in tempura.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Heirloom tomatoes are my favorite but it’s all delicious.

 

[PollyannaMom]

My tomatoes aren't ripe yet, so the only thing I've made so far was fried zucchini - but it was delicious!

 

[QueenIsabella]

Tomatoes, for sure! All they need is a little salt, but if I want to elevate my game, I slice them with a little fresh mozzarella and basil, also from my garden (the basil, not the mozzarella--but, if I could find a way to grow cheese, I'd be all over it!)

 

[mjkacmom]

Tomatoes are my favorite, but we are slammed with cucumbers and zucchini, plus Serrano peppers. My kids love zucchini lasagna, but it’s a pain to make. Lots of herbs. I like the escarole for soup, but it’s hot and the bunnies love it.

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

The tomatoes are my favorite. Sun gold cherry tomatoes just to snack on, they are so sweet and delicious! Or a nice big one used in a tomato sandwich, on white bread, with mayo, salt, & pepper. We also make caprese salads with them. And sometimes a pasta salad that will have a bunch of the cherry tomatoes.

Our cucumbers are on the way out. We got some large ones, but the heat is getting to the plants and they're at the end. We like just plain sliced to snack on, or make a little sandwich with hummus and cucumber. And I just made tzatziki sauce with one of them. Just picked 10 big poblanos ... making stuffed poblanos tonight for dinner. And the jalapenos we make into grilled jalapeno poppers.

 

[lynxstch]

Nothing like tomato's. First one every year gets washed and eaten right in the garden. The next come in and get made into tomato sandwiches on white bread with mayonnaise or miracle whip.
Good thing they're my favorite, I have 36 plants that went crazy this year for a change. I will be able to supply the whole neighborhood at the rate they are going.

Summer and zucchini are my second favorites

 

[auntfrannie]

Evidently my favorites are also the favorites of the groundhogs that have eaten all of my kale, zucchini, summer squash. The only thing they obviously don't like are peppers and tomatoes. Or maybe they're just waiting for them to ripen! Damn pigs! Yes, I'm very bitter.

 

[snowwite]

Evidently my favorites are also the favorites of the groundhogs that have eaten all of my kale, zucchini, summer squash. The only thing they obviously don't like are peppers and tomatoes. Or maybe they're just waiting for them to ripen! Damn pigs! Yes, I'm very bitter.

I hear ya. I have a wee herb garden and the rabbits have enjoyed the cilantro as well as all of the flowers off my zinnias and gerbera daisies. Thinking we might have rabbit stew. JK but they are lucky they are cute.

 

[snowwite]

Nothing like tomato's. First one every year gets washed and eaten right in the garden. The next come in and get made into tomato sandwiches on white bread with mayonnaise or miracle whip.
Good thing they're my favorite, I have 36 plants that went crazy this year for a change. I will be able to supply the whole neighborhood at the rate they are going.

Summer and zucchini are my second favorites

That just says summer doesn’t it? A warm ripe tomato straight off the vine.

 

[QueenIsabella]

Mmm, tomato sandwiches with mayo! The only debate is, to toast or not to toast the white bread! I could eat those all day!

Something got into my tomato plants--maybe a deer, since the tops are nibbled away (and the plants are caged). The odd thing is, I don't think there are deer in our area, and our back yard is fenced. So, hmmmm. I don't think it's the cats--the catnip is still going strong. Both the tomato plants and the catnip are on our back deck.

 

[firefly_ris]

Tomato sandwiches. My cucumbers are good this year too.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Tomatoes. We're getting plenty this year. My 2 favorites are BLT's and tomatoes with fresh mozzarella with balsamic vinegar.